How to chroot a user to a particular folder of another user

networking

- I have created an stfp user alpha

I want to limit his sftp access to a subfolder of another user /home/beta/subfolder
the chroot setting is

Match User alpha
    ChrootDirectory /home/beta/subfolder
    AllowTCPForwarding no
    X11Forwarding no
    ForceCommand internal-sftp

but the ftp gives me error

Error:    Connection reset by peer
Error:    Could not connect to server

If I change ChrootDirectory to /home only it works all fine.

What could be the issue ? please help.

If I am remembering correctly, the chroot directory needs to be owned by root.

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